Please Let Us Not Forget… Oprah Winfrey And That 2020 Bid
Like everyone else in Australia who should be gearing up for a busy 2018, the lure of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff got me out of piles of research yesterday morning and...
View ArticleToken Skeptic Week Two at #FringeWorld 2018 And The Curiouser And Curiouser...
Just a quick round-up on what’s been going on – firstly, there’s a new short episode of some of the running about I’ve been doing for Fringeworld 2018 over on the SoundCloud page: Some of the...
View ArticleGood Omens – It’s a Deity Job (But Someone’s God To Do It)
Good Omens is now screening worldwide (on Amazon Prime in Australia). I was under the impression after seeing Bill Nighy in nearly every British film that has arrived in Australia over the past few...
View ArticleLong Live The Bookshop – Vale Embiggen Books
A woman walks into a bookstore wearing two bowler hats at the same time, goes up to the desk and asks ‘Do you have any kazoos?” – one of my many experiences at Embiggen Books. This is a difficult post...
View ArticleMy Adventures At Perth’s #SupaNova2019 (And A Nod To The Rook On TV)
I’ve just posted a Patreon-only post for anyone interested in a more tidier version of the notes I took at the various panels and talks at #SupaNova2019, but you can also check them out on my social...
View ArticleLambs Of God Review – And Then There Were Nun
After the experience of watching the new Veronica Mars which arrived this month with a fourth season (I can’t be bothered reviewing it, but here’s a spoiler about my views on what they’ve done with it...
View ArticleToken Skeptic – Books Read in 2019
How was your year of reading? In 2019 I read a fair amount (mind, this is probably not unusual a list for me, as I often read in my spare time) and this doesn’t include ‘books I’ve re-read’, as that’d...
View ArticleBook Review: Devolution (If Bigfoot Exists, He’s Not Happy About Us)
I saw plenty of reviews comparing Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks to the works of Michael Crichton, and quite frankly, it’s difficult to challenge that....
View ArticleThe Magic of the Airwaves – Border Radio and You Be The Judge
As they did on other border stations, spooks rivalled singing cowboys as mail pullers at XEPN. Also called radio astrologers and psychologists, these performers were vaudeville mentalists of the...
View ArticleToken Skeptic – Books Read in 2020
Escapism drove most of my reading this year, and yet I still found myself re-reading World War Z. Which then led to feeling tense and worried about everybody and everything in the world. Escapism is...
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